Patents by Inventor Tony Robert NOLL

Tony Robert NOLL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12130307
    Abstract: A method for producing a device for measuring current strengths. The method includes providing a resistor arrangement with two connection elements and a resistor element arranged between the connection elements, molding a contact element from the material of the connection element or from the material of the resistor element. The contact element has an end face remote from the resistor arrangement and a cavity open on the end face. The method further includes providing a circuit board with a through-bore on whose inner surface electrically conductive material is present, positioning the circuit board on the resistor arrangement such that the contact element projects into the through-bore, and expanding the contact element in the radial direction using an expansion element inserted into the cavity of the contact element to establish an electrically conductive connection between the contact element and the electrically conductive material on the inner surface of the through-bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Thumm, Dragoslav Vucic-Seele, Tony Robert Noll
  • Patent number: 11621107
    Abstract: A resistor assembly including at least two connector elements and at least one strip-like or plate-like resistor element arranged between the connector elements. The resistor element has an upper side, a lower side and two longitudinal sides parallel to each other. The at least one resistor element is of a material of which the electrical conductivity is lower than the electrical conductivity of the material of the connector elements. The resistor element has, on at least its upper side or at least its lower side, at least one shaped element as a positioning aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Tony Robert Noll, Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Kim-Oliver Guther, Felix Schulz, Philipp-Morris Egle, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Jochen Walliser
  • Publication number: 20230081784
    Abstract: A resistor arrangement for measuring current strength having connection elements and a resistor element between the connection elements. The connection elements and the resistor element are arranged in a plane and in a row such that the arrangement is strip-shaped and has its smallest spatial extent perpendicular to the current direction. The resistor element has two contact sides and the connection elements each have a contact face connected to the contact sides. When current flows through the arrangement, current flow lines are formed which are deflected at at least one of the contact sides by an angle of at least 5° at the transition from the connection element to the resistor element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Tony Robert NOLL, Gerhard THUMM, Christoph KÄSTLE, Jochen WALLISER, Felix SCHULZ
  • Publication number: 20230003766
    Abstract: A method for producing a device for measuring current strengths. The method includes providing a resistor arrangement with two connection elements and a resistor element arranged between the connection elements, molding a contact element from the material of the connection element or from the material of the resistor element. The contact element has an end face remote from the resistor arrangement and a cavity open on the end face. The method further includes providing a circuit board with a through-bore on whose inner surface electrically conductive material is present, positioning the circuit board on the resistor arrangement such that the contact element projects into the through-bore, and expanding the contact element in the radial direction using an expansion element inserted into the cavity of the contact element to establish an electrically conductive connection between the contact element and the electrically conductive material on the inner surface of the through-bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Gerhard THUMM, Dragoslav VUCIC-SEELE, Tony Robert NOLL
  • Publication number: 20220189664
    Abstract: A resistor assembly including at least two connector elements and at least one strip-like or plate-like resistor element arranged between the connector elements. The resistor element has an upper side, a lower side and two longitudinal sides parallel to each other. The at least one resistor element is of a material of which the electrical conductivity is lower than the electrical conductivity of the material of the connector elements. The resistor element has, on at least its upper side or at least its lower side, at least one shaped element as a positioning aid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tony Robert NOLL, Gerhard THUMM, Volker VOGGESER, Kim-Oliver GUTHER, Felix SCHULZ, Philipp-Morris EGLE, Michael WOLF, Christoph KÄSTLE, Jochen WALLISER
  • Patent number: 11349245
    Abstract: An arrangement of components for transferring electric current from a current-feeding component to a current-discharging component, including a first component, which feeds current to the arrangement or discharges current from the arrangement. The first component includes a first metallic material and, on at least one surface, has at least one spring lamella composed of the first metallic material and machined out of the first metallic material at the surface. The lamella is machined out of the first metallic material at the surface of the first component such that it is connected monolithically to the first component in a connecting region and, starting therefrom extends as far as a free end and, when deflected out of a rest position toward the surface of the first component, exerts a spring force directed away from the surface. A second component is in immediate contact with the lamella of the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Tony Robert Noll, Gerhard Thumm, Volker Voggeser, Michael Wolf, Christoph Kästle, Jochen Walliser
  • Publication number: 20210281002
    Abstract: An arrangement of components for transferring electric current from a current-feeding component to a current-discharging component, including a first component, which feeds current to the arrangement or discharges current from the arrangement. The first component includes a first metallic material and, on at least one surface, has at least one spring lamella composed of the first metallic material and machined out of the first metallic material at the surface. The lamella is machined out of the first metallic material at the surface of the first component such that it is connected monolithically to the first component in a connecting region and, starting therefrom extends as far as a free end and when deflected out of a rest position toward the surface of the first component, exerts a spring force directed away from the surface. A second component is in immediate contact with the lamella of the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Tony Robert NOLL, Gerhard THUMM, Volker VOGGESER, Michael WOLF, Christoph KÄSTLE, Jochen WALLISER
  • Patent number: 9973068
    Abstract: A copper alloy having the following composition (in % by weight): in each case 0.05 to 0.5% of at least three elements selected from the group consisting of Ag, Ni, Zn, Sn and Al, remainder Cu and unavoidable impurities, optionally 0.01 to 0.2% of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Zr, B, P, As, Sb. Also, a current-carrying structural part made of a copper alloy and a cage rotor having multiple conductor bars and two short-circuiting rings, which are cast in one piece from a copper alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: WIELAND-WERKE AG
    Inventors: Timo Allmendinger, Tony Robert Noll, Joachim Riedle, Gerhard Thumm
  • Publication number: 20160056698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a copper alloy having the following composition (in % by weight): in each case 0.05 to 0.5% of at least three elements selected from the group consisting of Ag, Ni, Zn, Sn and Al, remainder Cu and unavoidable impurities, optionally 0.01 to 0.2% of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Zr, B, P, As, Sb. The invention also relates to a current-carrying structural part made of a copper alloy and also to a cage rotor having a plurality of conductor bars and two short-circuiting rings, which are cast in one piece from a copper alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Timo ALLMENDINGER, Tony Robert NOLL, Joachim RIEDLE, Gerhard THUMM